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Cardiovascular medicine

• Is there a role for renin profiling in selecting chronic heart failure patients for ACE inhibitor treatment? (1 March, 2000)

  P O Lim, R J MacFadyen, A D Struthers
• Effect of verapamil on systolic and diastolic coronary blood flow velocity in asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (1 March, 2000)

  P Petkow Dimitrow, M Krzanowski, R Niz˙ankowski, A Szczeklik, J S Dubiel
• Racial variation in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in essential hypertension (1 March, 2000)

  R S Khattar, J D Swales, R Senior, A Lahiri
• Blood pressure, arterial compliance, and left ventricular mass: no relation to small size at birth in south Indian adults (1 March, 2000)

  K Kumaran, C H D Fall, C N Martyn, M Vijayakumar, C Stein, R Shier
• Influence of hypertension, left ventricular hypertrophy, and left ventricular systolic dysfunction on plasma N terminal proBNP (1 March, 2000)

  S Talwar, A Siebenhofer, B Williams, L Ng
• Prolonged left ventricular dysfunction occurs in patients with coronary artery disease after both dobutamine and exercise induced myocardial ischaemia (1 March, 2000)

  E Barnes, C S R Baker, D P Dutka, O Rimoldi, C A Rinaldi, P Nihoyannopoulos, P G Camici, R J C Hall
• Patients with uncomplicated coronary artery disease have reduced heart rate variability mainly affecting vagal tone (1 March, 2000)

  B Wennerblom, L Lurje, H Tygesen, R Vahisalo, Å Hjalmarson
• Effects of cardiac sympathetic innervation on regional wall motion abnormality in patients with long QT syndrome (1 March, 2000)

  H Yamanari, K Nakayama, H Morita, K Miyazi, K Fukushima, H Matsubara, T Emori, T Ohe
• Acute yellow oleander (Thevetia peruviana) poisoning: cardiac arrhythmias, electrolyte disturbances, and serum cardiac glycoside concentrations on presentation to hospital

  (1 March, 2000)

  M Eddleston, C A Ariaratnam, L Sjöström, S Jayalath, K Rajakanthan, S Rajapakse, D Colbert, W P Meyer, G Perera, S Attapattu, S A M Kularatne, M R Sheriff, D A Warrell